Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (60 mails)

[Andrew Wafaa <awafaa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:44:30 +1100
Magnus Boman <captain.magnus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The KDE people, when they build newer KDE for older versions of
> openSUSE, use their Factory project. If the older openSUSE version
> doesn't provide a requirement (eg, a newer version of a package from
> the base distribution), they link it to their KDE Factory repo, and
> disable that particular package for the Factory build.
>
> Have a look at KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop and for instance the libgpod3
> package to see what I mean.
> 
> I'd like to do the same when we do backport GNOME 2.26 for openSUSE
> 11.1.
> Would this approach be OK with everyone?
>
> Thanks,
> Magnus

Indeed, this seems to work well for them as I have had no issue with
their 4.1 builds for 11.0 +1.

Ye I use KDE too at times.  Good to see what else is out there ;)

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